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Some of Greg Smith's numbers this season look better than others. On Saturday, the A's rookie left-hander suffered his 16th loss of the season in his final start, a 7-3 defeat to the Seattle Mariners at Safeco ...

The Rangers pummeled Oakland 14-4, using a three-run homer by Hank Blalock and an eight-run sixth inning to win the series and to move 1 1/2 games in front of the A's in the race for second place in the AL ...

Travis Buck drove in the winning run with an 11th-inning single Monday night and the Oakland A's beat Texas 4-3. Cliff Pennington -- who also drove in a run for Oakland -- opened the top of the 11th with a ...

A's rookie lefty Josh Outman had a rough time of it in his second big league start, and veteran righty Keith Foulke gave up three homers in a four-pitch span Thursday as the visiting Angels averted a sweep with ...

For 8 1/2 innings Thursday, it seemed like a sense of order had returned to the 2008 American League West.

Huston Street was Oakland's fifth pitcher of the game Wednesday, providing the unseated A's closer with another dose of unwanted seventh-inning duty.

When this season began, the A's boasted the veteran duo of Alan Embree and Keith Foulke handling setup duties in the bullpen.

Billy Butler homered and drove in four runs to lead Kansas City past Oakland 5-2 on Tuesday night in a game between teams that combined for 40 losses in August.

LA Angels Bottom 7th - Santiago Casilla starts the inning for the Athletics. Oakland 0, LA Angels 5 Oakland Top 7th - - Daric Barton grounded out to first to end the inning.

When compared with the team's awful hitting since the break, the A's pitchers still look pretty good.

Thursday's getaway game almost got away from the Rays, before they finally nailed down a 7-6 victory over the A's in front of a crowd of 16,689 Thursday afternoon at McAfee Coliseum.

The Rays keep taking punches, but nothing has managed to knock them down yet. Finishing off their first series without two star players, the Rays lost another Thursday afternoon in the course of a wild 7-6 ...

Tampa Bay ended Oakland reliever Brad Ziegler's record scoreless streak. Then the Rays ended the Athletics' hopes of winning their first series in more than a month.

This one started out with a modicum of promise: the Big Hurt knocked a solo HR in the first, and Dan Meyer set the Tigers down in order in the bottom half of the frame.

Although I am sure that there are some old school Texas Rangers and Colorado Rockies fans who would disagree, my feeling is that there is nothing worse to watch in baseball than a bad team that can't hit.

But as anyone who follows the team knows, a three-run lead is too much for Oakland to overcome these days.

The A's could not provide run support for rookie starter Gio Gonzalez as they lost, 5-1, to the Blue Jays at Rogers Centre on Wednesday.

Alex Cora makes a great play to save a hit. He dives for a ball that was hit over the 2nd base bag by Hannahan and gets him by a split second to end the inning.

About a month ago, when I still was writing the "Pickup Lines" column, I talked about knowing the right time to pick up a potential closer .

Blanton was 5-12 with a 4.96 ERA with the A's before coming to Phillies. The Phillies won't leave Flushing tied with the Mets atop the NL East .